We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.
– Henry David Thoreau

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
–Mother Teresa

Besides generating papers to fulfil academic/professional aspirations, most researchers hope that with time, their papers would gain recognition and that findings would someday have real life implications on the world.

Closely intertwined with the concept of beneficence, it can be difficult for researchers to make that difference amidst the hundreds and thousands of journal articles published each year.

So the question is what now?
How can research feed into policies and support positive change?

These question remains pivotal in the translation of research into action and attempts to answer it often rest on understanding the roles and interactions between the various actors who govern the research to implementation process.

Revolving around the principle that research provides evidence for implementation and practice; many contend that research in action can save lives, reduce poverty and…

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There was a time until the early 1960s when the terms to describe those of African decent, like me — African-American or Black or Afro-American — were almost unheard of. I remember a distinct conversation with a friend discussing descriptive terms for ourselves in 1963 or ’64. The term “black” was just coming into vogue and he didn’t like it one bit. “Call me a Negro,” he said, “but don’t call me black.”

Now, the word “Negro” (publications used a lower case “n”) has almost become a pejorative, so I was a little surprised when my pastor, the Rev. Willie Reid, used it during Thursday’s revival. “Back when we were Negroes,” he said, and listed several things that were different about black life in America back then.

That got me to thinking.

Back when we were Negroes in the 1950s, “only 9…

Water, water everywhere! This week’s theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge is Water. ‘Water’ is a topic for which I don’t need to scratch my head for long. Rather in the past few years I have captured so many beaches and lakes that I didn’t need to search for long to get these few photographs out of my big bag of negatives! 😛

The Arabian Sea, Mumbai

The Arabian Waters

Water, Water Everywhere!

Crowded Waters of the Maha Kumbh, Allahabad

A Lake Outside a Monastery in Sikkim

Tsomgo Lake, Sikkim

The Goan Waters

Dolphin Sighting in Goa

Chilka Lake, Odissa